Bug 186427

Summary:	mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Joseph Perrin <jap>
Component:	samba	Assignee:	Jay Fenlason <fenlason>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	5	CC:	jfeeney, jplans
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Description Joseph Perrin 2006-03-23 15:09:02 UTC

Description of problem:

Can't mount smbfs after FC5 upgrade.  Mount reports:  

  mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
samba-client-3.0.21b-2

How reproducible: absolute


Steps to Reproduce:
1. mount //somehost/someshare /mnt/someshare -t smbfs
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'

Expected results:
A mounted fs.

Additional info:
On FC4, (which I upgraded from), samba-client-3.0.8-0.pre1.3.i386 was installed,
but FC5 installs samba-client-3.0.21b-2

Comment 1 Jay Fenlason 2006-03-23 15:12:55 UTC

smbfs is gone.  use cifs instead.

Comment 2 Joseph Perrin 2006-03-23 15:22:42 UTC

I changed all the references to "smbfs" in /etc/fstab to "cifs".  It now works.